language and culture – Maria Guzenko

How Do You Say Rogue One in Russian?

By now, many people will have seen and enjoyed a Star Wars spin-off movie Rogue One. One of the things that occurred to me after watching it was the challenge of translating the word “rogue.”

Translating Security Questions

Security questions at http://www.huntington.com An important issue to take into account for localizing websites is that of security questions. In my experience of coming across these questions, as a Russian-bred person, I often discovered that most of them did not apply to me. Some of the popular security question on US websites run along theContinue reading “Translating Security Questions”

Things people just don’t say outside Russia

This post first appeared on my blog about Russia: Now that I am pursuing a Master’s degree in Translation (see my translation-related blog for more information), I often think about similar things people describe using totally different expressions that are not, strictly speaking, translations of each other. Say, one of my English students asked meContinue reading “Things people just don’t say outside Russia”